Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

it has been 2 years since the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (Senator Conroy) attended Channel 31’s Antenna Awards and announced that ‘Community Television would not be left behind’ in Australia’s transition to digital television, and

(ii)

despite the Minister’s assurances, there was no funding to facilitate community television’s transition to digital broadcasting in the 2009-10 Budget; and

(b)

calls on the Australian Government to:

(i)

immediately allocate available digital spectrum to the current community television license holders, and

(ii)

provide funding to facilitate community television’s transition to digital broadcasting and inform the Senate of a timeline to achieve this.

Question agreed to.

Kerry O'Brien (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—The government oppose this motion. We did not call the division, recognising that the opposition and the Greens together voting for it gave it a majority.